VIMECONF'18 Advance Program
The Organizing Committee of the Vibration Institute Middle East Conference to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, March 12-14, 2018, is pleased to announce the Conference Advance Program.Many excellent Papers and Case Studies are included in the Program.
A separate optional one day short course on selected topics precedes the conference. In addition, an exciting state-of-the-art exhibition complements the program sessions.
Please visit http://ritec-eg.com/VI-MEconf2018/conference.html for more information.
The Program consists of Keynote Presentations, Plenary Presentations, Technology Papers and Case Study Papers.
Sunday 11 March 2018
| Time | Session Details |
| 09:00 - 13:00 | Short Course: Introduction to Rotor Dynamics Room: British House Room A Su-Short Course 1-001 Dr. Rajagopal Subbiah Orlando, United States |
09:00 - 13:00 | Short Course: Introduction to Field Balancing Room: British House Room B Chair/s: Su-Short Course 2-001 Introduction to Balancing Khalid AlYamani, Dr. Aly El-Shafei RITEC, Cairo, Egypt | 09:00 - 13:00 | Short Course: Introduction to Operational Deflection Shape & Modal Analysis Room: British House Room C Su-Short Course 3-001 Introduction to Balancing Dr. Aly El-Shafei, Ahmed El-Shafei RITEC, Cairo, Egypt | 16:00 - 20:00 | Exhibition Build-Up Egypt Hall Foyer 1 |
Monday 12 March 2018
| Time | Session Details |
| 08:45 - 10:15 | Session: Keynote Session 1 Mo-Keynote 1-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Mechanical Vibration & Structural Dynamic Analysis of Centrifugal Fans Bob Sayer Vibration Institute, Oak Brook, United States |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session: Plenary Session 1 Mo-Plenary 1-001 - Room: Egypt Hall An Introduction to Steady State Data Analysis for Sleeve Bearing Machinery Bill Pryor PdM Solutions, Texas, United States |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session: Technology Track 1 Mo-Technology Track-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Equipment Reliability using Ultrasound Approach Manohar Chidurala Vibration Institute Level II, Ultrasound Level II, Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering 25 years experience to promoting & implementing Maintenance Technologies, Hyderabad, India Mo-Technology Track-002 - Room: Egypt Hall Performing Order Tracking Analysis in the Presence of Close and Crossing Orders Jaafar Alsalaet AJR Technology LTD, Basra, Iraq |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session: Case Studies Session 1 Mo-Case Studies-001 - Room: British House Room A Troubleshooting of Failure of 72MW Steam Turbine Caused by Bearing Pedestal Misalignment LUIS MOSQUERA Petro Rabigh, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia Mo-Case Studies-002 - Room: British House Room A Marine Vibration Case Studies Mohamed Nouh RITEC, Cairo, Egypt |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Session: Technology Track Session 2 Mo-Technology Track-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Torsional Vibration of Reciprocating Compressors Aly El-Shafei RITEC, Cairo, Egypt Mo-Technology Track-002 - Room: Egypt Hall Application of Extreme Value Theory for Automated Alarms Daniela Filcheva1(1), Matthew Asher(1), Nicholas Lieven(1), Paul Hutchinson(2) (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (2)Beran Instruments, Great Torrington, United Kingdom |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Session: Case Studies Session 2 Mo-Case Studies-001 - Room: British House Room A Case study on Resolving Structural Vibration Issues on a Multi Stage Pump Mustafa Shalabi, Ahmad Ashour Baker Hughes, a GE company, Al- Khobar, Saudi Arabia Mo-Case Studies-002 - Room: British House Room A Solving Chronic Vibration Problem on 1475 HP motor: A Case History Ronny H Rusli1(1), Faisal Al-Jamhoor(2) 1Predictive Maintenance Group Aramco Riyadh Refinery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2Reliability Unit Aramco Riyadh Refinery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Reception Egypt Hall Foyer + Blue Nile Hall |
Tuesday 13 March 2018
| Time | Session Details |
| 08:45 - 10:15 | Session: Keynote Session 2 Tu-Keynote 2-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Dynamic Coefficients of Fluid-Film Bearings and Seals in Rotating Machines: Models and Experimental Tests Paolo Pennacchi Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session: Plenary Session 2 Tu-Plenary 2-001 - Room: Egypt Hall SEMAJIB: A Versatile Bearing Aly El-Shafei RITEC, Cairo, Egypt |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session: Technology Track 3 Tu-Technology Track-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Selected Case Studies of Steam Turbine Vibration Dr. Rajagopal Subbiah Orlando, United States Tu-Technology Track-002 - Room: Egypt Hall New Findings With Fully Automated Balancing Systems at Fans in the Process Technology Industry Erwan Godard, Michael Stork Hofmann, Pfungstadt, Germany |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session: Case Studies Session 3 Tu-Case Studies-001 - Room: British House Room A Using Advanced Vibration Analysis Techniques to Rectify Difficult Vibration Problems (Case Studies) Nabil Rashwan Saudi Electricity Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Tu-Case Studies-002 - Room: British House Room A Troubleshooting High Vibration Problem in a High Speed Compressor Khalid AlYamani RITEC, Cairo, Egypt |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Session: Technology Track Session 4 Tu-Technology Track-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Structural Identification and ODS for Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers Ahmed El-Shafei RITEC, Cairo, Egypt Tu-Technology Track-002 - Room: Egypt Hall A New Method for ONLINE VIBRATION DATA COLLECTION, that makes plant-wide condition monitoring easier and less expensive Amitabh Khosla, Steve Sabin B & K, B & K, United States |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Session: Case Studies Session 4 Tu-Case Studies-001 - Room: British House Room A Case Study on Resolving High Vibration Issue on a Centrifugal Compressor at Offshore Platform AMIT SHARMA, Sherif Mekawey BAKER HUGHES a GE Company, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Tu-Case Studies-002 - Room: British House Room A Using On-line Vibration System and Successfully Resolving Turbine-Generator Problem IBRAHIM ALAJMI Saudi Electricity Company, Dammam, Saudi Arabia |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Reception Egypt Hall Foyer + Blue Nile Hall |
Wednesday 14 March 2018
| Time | Session Details |
| 08:45 - 10:15 | Session: Keynote Session 3 Tu-Keynote 3-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Machinery Diagnostics: A Standardized Approach Aly El-Shafei RITEC, Cairo, Egypt |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session: Plenary Session 3 We-Plenary 3-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Vibration Analysis of Pump Piping Systems Bob Sayer Vibration Institute, Oak Brook, United States Vibration Analysis of Fan Ductwork Systems Bob Sayer Vibration Institute, Oak Brook, United States |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session: Technology Track 5 We-Technology Track-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Slow Speed Vibration Monitoring Chris James SKF, Prague, Czech Republic We-Technology Track-002 - Room: Egypt Hall Time Waveform Analysis Bill Pryor PdM Solutions, Dresher, United States |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session: Case Studies Session 5 We-Case Studies-001 - Room: British House Room A Pump and Piping System Interactive Vibration Impacting Project Commission Abdullah Abood Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia We-Case Studies-002 - Room: British House Room A Case Study on Resolving High Vibration on a Vertical Motor Ahmad. Ashour, Mustafa Shalabi Baker Hughes, a Ge company, Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Session: Technology Track Session 6 We-Technology Track-001 - Room: Egypt Hall Real Time Condition Monitoring Based on Cloud Computing: A Survey Asmaa Elmaghraby Egyptian Electricity Holding Company, Alexandria, Egypt, PhD candidate in faculty of engineering in Alexandria university, Alexandria, Egypt We-Technology Track-002 - Room: Egypt Hall Dynamic Analysis of Discrete Model Using LabView and NONLIN Softwares - A Comparative Study Govardhan Bhat, Palash Rajapandhere National Institute of Technology Raipur, Raipur, India |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Session: Case Studies Session 6 We-Case Studies-001 - Room: British House Room A Case Study for Troubleshooting and Resolving High Vibrations of Decanter Separator Ahmed J. Zaidi Petro Rabigh, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia We-Case Studies-002 - Room: British House Room A Simple Solution that Save Cost: A Predictive Maintenance Case History Ronny H Rusli, Turki Turiky, Sultan Subaie, Abdullah Qahtani, Khaled Dossary, Mohammad Hathal Predictive Maintenance Group Saudi Aramco Riyadh Refinery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| 18:00 | Exhibition Tear Down |